The other slavery : the uncovered story of Indian enslavement in America / Andrés Reséndez.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Reséndez, Andrés, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Enslaved Indians--United States--History.

Enslaved Indians.

Slave trade--United States--History.

Slave trade.

Indians, Treatment of--United States--History.

Indians, Treatment of.

Indians of North America--History.

Indians of North America.

Slavery--United States--History.

Slavery.

Enslaved Indians--North America--History.

Indians, Treatment of--North America--History.

Slave trade--North America--History.

Slavery--North America--History.

Enslavement--history.

Indians, North American--history.

North America.

United States.

Medical Subjects:

Enslavement--history.

Indians, North American--history.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xiii, 431 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Other Title:

Uncovered story of Indian enslavement in America

Place of Publication:

Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2016]

Summary:

Since the time of Columbus, Indian slavery was illegal in much of the American continent. Yet, as Andrés Reséndez illuminates in this book, it was practiced for centuries as an open secret. There was no abolitionist movement to protect the tens of thousands of natives who were kidnapped and enslaved by the conquistadors, then forced to descend into the "mouth of hell" of eighteenth-century silver mines or, later, made to serve as domestics for Mormon settlers and rich Anglos. Reséndez builds the incisive case that it was mass slavery, more than epidemics, that decimated Indian populations across North America. New evidence, including testimonies of courageous priests, rapacious merchants, Indian captives, and Anglo colonists, sheds light too on Indian enslavement of other Indians -- as what started as a European business passed into the hands of indigenous operators and spread like wildfire across vast tracts of the American Southwest. The Other Slavery reveals a key missing piece of American history. For over two centuries we have fought over, abolished, and tried to come to grips with African-American slavery. It is time for the West to confront an entirely separate, equally devastating enslavement we have long failed truly to see.

Contents:

Caribbean debacle

Good intentions

The trafficker and his network

The pull of silver

The Spanish campaign

The greatest insurrection against the other slavery

Powerful nomads

Missions, presidios, and slaves

Contractions and expansions

Americans and the other slavery

A new era of Indian bondage

The other slavery and the other emancipation

Epilogue.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Finalist, National Book Award for Nonfiction, 2016

Bancroft Prize in American History and Dipolomacy, 2017

Local Notes:

The Indian Rights Association Complementary Collection.

The Balch Ethnic Studies Collection.

Other Format:

Online version: Reséndez, Andrés. Other slavery

ISBN:

9780547640983

0547640986

9780544947108

054494710X

OCLC:

913924416

Publisher Number:

40025926715